BEAT THIS! Commodore C64 has the same feature called SAM - speaker synthesizer, speaks English and Polish. 48 kB of RAM BEAT THIS!
It's not the same feature, but at least that's not several orders of magnitude away from "run anywhere"
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#372say is only 193K on MacOS ls -lah /usr/bin/say -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 193K 15 Nov 2024 /usr/bin/say Usage: M1-Mac-mini ~ % say "hello world this is the kitten TTS model speaking"
If you make a shell script that calls say, that script will be even smaller!
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#374Microsoft's and some of Google's TTS models make the simplest mistakes. For instance, they sometimes read "i.e." as "for example." This is a problem if you have low vision and use TTS for, say, proofreading your emails. Why does it happen? I'm genuinely curious.
You probably mean "e.g." as "for example", not "i.e."? This might be on purpose and part of the training data because "for example" just sounds much better than "e.g.". Presumably for most purposes, linguistic naturalness is more important than fidelity.
I did mean "i.e." That's why it is a problem : - \
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#375Not bad. Something I would not want to listen for long without more clarity. Could work very well for non-english speakers in various tools an such.
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#377We can integrate this into the browser directly!
-- browserOS.com
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#378Might be useful to split it up to use the same speech features as some off the shelf vocoder, such as FARGAN used by RADE (https://freedv.org/radio-autoencoder/) and DRED (https://jmvalin.ca/papers/valin_dred_journal.pdf).
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#379It looks great
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#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are still people who use machine wide python installs instead of environments? Python dependency hell was already bad years ago, but today it's completely impractical to do it this way. Even on raspberries.
Using venv won't save you from having the wrong version of the actual Python interpreter installed.
venvs can be attached to arbitrary interpreters.